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Too many looks. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I thought they went extinct decades ago?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Several decades, in fact

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

6,500,000 Decades ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's more than a century, isn't it?

[–] scutiger 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

650,000 centuries, yes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That's what I love about lemmy, here are experts on about every field of knowledge happy to share their expertise. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's more than a millennium, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Don't be ridiculous!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Back when boys were boys and girls were girls, i remember it clearly

[–] pdxfed 5 points 2 months ago

Personal trainer and stylist would make most of us unrecognizable.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2016 seems to be an illustration of Dimetrodon instead. But yeah, spinosaurus has many looks it's pretty funny and exciting every time a new paper's out lol

[–] illumrial 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that Dimetrodon has a mustache so it must have been a very silly time in paleontology.

[–] atomicorange 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not many people know this but most dinosaur species have mustaches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Feathered mustaches, more specifically

[–] fireweed 16 points 2 months ago

Not a paleontologist, but these renditions seem shockingly consistent for a dinosaur. T-Rex for example went from full upright to balanced to covered in feathers in half this timeframe. And let's not even talk about poor iguanodon...

[–] atomicorange 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When all you have is a few bone fragments and a bunch of teeth, it’s pretty hard to figure out what my dude looked like! With each new fossil we get a better picture.

He keeps getting better and bite-ier every year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A friend of mine was cleaning out the home she grew up in and gave me some old dinosaur cards that she found for my nephew. I looked at them and had to laugh and said they are quite antiquated. She said yes, they are from the early 90's. I said that they need an update badly. She was shocked and said dinosaurs didn't change in millions of years. Yeah but our understanding. She really really did not believe me.

[–] Shard 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they fire the scientist in 2015 and ask an intern to make the model for 2016?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Why does it has a moustache?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren't these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?

But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator

This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't know why the dinosaur memes have been on the rise recently, but I like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...it shrunk a bit...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Peaked in 2005

[–] needthosepylons 1 points 2 months ago

Oh my dear Baruch, what did they do to you..